On the eve of the 81st anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WILPF-Canada and VOW have sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Carney and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anand to appeal to them to have Canada join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), to plan to […]
Prime Minister Carney plans to hold an “Investment Summit” in Toronto to privatize and militarize Canada. We want a green, peace care economy not more militarized corporatism. Check out the counter-summit “The Many vs the Money”. Convened by the Council of Canadians, 8th Fire Rising and World BEYOND War, the “Many versus the Money” counter-summit […]
WILPF-Canada and the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) wrote to Prime Minister Carney and to Minister of Foreign Affairs Anand to express our disappointment that Canada abstained on the United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) vote to decide whether to proceed with a debate on “the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial […]
VOW and WILPF-Canada have sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Carney and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anand urging them to stand up for Palestinians illegally detained and tortured by Israeli forces and speak out against illegal Israeli settlements and violence in the West Bank. Read our letter here. Our members have participated in actions […]
WILPF-Canada is endorsing the campaign to cancel the Carney government’s plan to spend $100 billion on a new fleet of submarines. SIGN & SHARE! Please sign the open letter to NDP leader Avi Lewis and Green leader Elizabeth May – with a cc: to the Prime Minister – to ask them to oppose Carney’s submarine […]
WILPF-Canada members met with members of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace for a luncheon in Toronto. We discussed our campaign to rally women to oppose the Carney government’s increase to military spending and ramping up of weapons procurement and production. We also shared good food and stories about our lives in the peace […]
On Nelson Mandela Day, WILPF Canada will participate in the Canada out of NATO rally in Toronto.Date: Saturday, July 18th (in person)Time: 2:00 PM ESTLocation: 361 University Ave, TorontoOrganized by many groups. Please join us!
The NATO Summit in Ankara has ended by padding the pockets of the transatlantic, male-dominated military industrial complex with public funds while impoverishing the rest us.NATO announced $70 billion more to prolong the proxy war in Ukraine this year, but not one dollar to end it. At the NATO Summit, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced […]
WILPF members are looking forward to attending the WILPF International Congress that is taking place July 17-20. It is hosted by WILPF Cameroon, under the theme Intergenerational and Intersectional: Feminist Unity to Confront Global Crises. More about the Congress 2026 information can be found here. Our members will also be participating in the Pre-Congress Learning […]
WILPF Canada participated in film screenings of “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” in Waterloo in June and Hamilton in July. We joined forces with other great peace, justice and Palestinian groups to host the screenings of this powerfully film about the climate and environmental impacts of the U.S. war machine. There were great crowds and we passed […]
